HR EXAM 1

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HR Knowledge Assessment Quiz

Welcome to the HR Knowledge Assessment Quiz! This comprehensive quiz consists of 16 thoughtfully crafted questions designed to evaluate your understanding of human resources principles, practices, and theories.

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A unique capability that creates a high value for a company. Separates an organization from its competitors, key determinate of competitive advantage. HR focuses on using people as a core competency

Organizational culture

Core competency

Human capital

Or none of the above

What is the definition for Human capital?

Designing formal systems in an organization to manage human talent for accomplishing organizational goals

Conducting comprehensive reviews of the political environment and employment laws before beginning operation in another country

Collective value of the capabilities, knowledge, skills, life experiences, and motivation of an organizations workforce. Based off of physical assets, financial assets, intellectual property assets, and human assets.

Managing payroll, taxes, rapidly increasing costs, and compliance with government regulations

What are the HR approach to improve org productivity? Check all that that apply to this term

What is Human Resource Management?

Managing payroll, taxes, rapidly increasing costs, and compliance with government regulations. Alleviates duties from management by hiring someone for HR work.

Designing formal systems in an organization to manage human talent for accomplishing organizational goals

Process of identifying a plan for the orderly replacement of key employees

What is Person-Job fit?

Impact the job has on other people and the org as a whole (ex: Police officers and firefighters feeling fulfilled when handling/resolving an issue). The jobs are meaningful and serve a purpose.

Extent of individual freedom and discretion on the work and its scheduling. Leads to greater feeling of responsibility of the work. Require task prioritization and self-scheduling.

Matching the characteristics of people with the characteristics of jobs (ex: a bank teller is fit for a person who is outgoing and communicates well).

None of the above

Federal law prohibiting discrimination against all people 40 or older employed by an org with over 20 employees. Amended to include the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA) which protected employees who signed liability waivers for age discrimination in exchange for severance packages.

ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990)

ADEA (The Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 1967)

Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) and I-9

Equal Pay Act

What is Equity Theory?

The perceived fairness of what a person does compared with what the person receives for doing it. Always looking for balance, whether it is decreasing effort or maximizing (ex: Lowering efforts on the job to match another slacker as a result of not receiving praise/recognition).

People base their decisions about their behaviors on their expectations that one or another alternate behavior is more than likely to lead to needed or desired outcome. If expectations not met, person becomes unsatisfied. Effort-performance, Performance-reward, and value of rewards.

Positive feelings and evaluations derived from an individual’s employment. Recognition and good performance appraisals are vital.

None of the above

What are Employer approaches to absenteeism?

Disciplinary, Positive Reinforcement and Combination Approach

Disciplinary, Positive Reinforcement and Replacement

Disciplinary, Positive Reinforcement and Combination Approach

Positive Reinforcement and Combination Approach

Shift work, Compressed workweek, Part-time schedules are examples of which of the following?

Flexibility and Work-Life balance

Job Analysis

Alternative work schedules

Skill Variety

In Job Design/Redesign - Design refers to??

Involves immediate need and changing existing jobs in different ways to improve them.

Organizing tasks, duties, responsibilities, and other elements into a productive unit of work.

Managers must make sure that expectations, requirements, responsibilities, and accountability are all made clear

All of the above

What is Employee engagement?

He extent to which an employee’s thoughts and behaviors are focused on his/her work and their employer’s success. Engaged works are more productive , put in extra effort, highly involved, employ effort and thought, active/busy, full invested.

The desire that exists within a person that causes the individual to act. A goal directed drive influenced by themselves or other around them. Analogous to need, want, desire, and drive.

Identifies a job’s tasks, duties, and responsibilities. Identifies what, why, and where, and briefly, how jobs are done. Most difficult part is identification of soft-skill requirements and typical duties.

None of the above

What term is this referring to; Discriminatory practices that have prevented women and minority status employees from advancing to executive level jobs.

Nepotism

Business Necessity

Gender Discrimination

The Glass Ceiling

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